There were 2.402 people killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This event changed history. Authors can use this history to change the way we see it in book. In the book Into The Killing Seas By Michael Spradlin uses this history very acutely. This book is accurate because of its shark attacks, as how the USS Indianapolis sunk.…
In “The Raft” by Betsey Byars the author talks about a raft that became a part of Dewey’s life. The passage starts off by creating an image of Dewey walking down a path and looking down at his raft. Here you can tell that Dewey is proud of his work done on the raft because in the passage the author says “He felt better as he looked at his handiwork. Dewey thought that it was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen.”…
Forcing the power or influence of one country onto another is not peaceful, in fact it is domination. Many intellectuals in the early twentieth century European societies, like Hobson, Comfort, Ferry and Kipling, had contrasting opinions when referring to imperialism. Hobson for example, does not agree with the idea of imperialism because of how it impacts the inferior country. Foreigners who work in the factories built there are forced to depend on those wages and begin to look up to the superior country. Comfort argues that imperialism should not be a concern in the U.S. because of the fact that their own problems have not been resolved.…
Frith’s Feminist Façade Considered an epic feminist text, Melika Burke pierces through the illusion of female freedom underpinning Year of Wonders to reveal its underlying paradox. Geraldine Brooks’s Year of Wonders (2001) is one of the most grievously misinterpreted and misunderstood texts of the twenty first century. Brooks’s (2009), who proudly identities as a “modern western feminists”, intertwines her experience as a Middle Eastern war correspondent where she observed the emancipatory potential of women with the historical scaffold of the 1665 Bubonic Plague to create a feminist utopian heroine: Anna. This rich exploration of the female identity has elevated the novel to an erroneously distinguished position by depicting the text as quintessentially feminist. Cultural Critic Lee (2012) encapsulates this prevailing interpretation by praising the “[s]trong feminist consciousness operating through Year of Wonders”.…
Ship Breaker Is Relevant To Our Society The book Ship Breaker by Bacigalupi is an incredible example of a dystopian society and also warns us about our own society. This book does not only show what a dystopian society is it also explains to people that humanity better be careful or else our “real” world could end up as a dystopian society as used in the book. The main key points that this essay will be explaining is a dystopian protagonist, dystopian controls, characteristics of a dystopian society.…
A Movement of Its Own: A Case for Naturalism Naturalism’s place within American literature is a debated topic to this day. Some academics believe that realism and naturalism are so closely related that they must be inclusive of the same movement; indeed, these academics argue that naturalism is part of the realism movement. On the other hand, others argue that naturalism has enough distinction from realism that it is deserving of its own movement, and considering the purpose in categorizing a movement is for one to be able to see the approaches an author takes when composing a text or to see commonality between various works, it is more useful to see naturalism as a separate movement than to see it as part of another. Therefore, it is advantageous to define what approaches realist authors, such as William Dean Howells and Kate Chopin, and naturalist authors, such…
Mary Cassatt painted an oil painting on a canvas that is 35x46 in the year 1893 and it is called The Boating Party. I don’t really care for the painting. Some parts seem very sloppy although she seemed to work for a very long time. In the picture you see a man woman and a child in a boat.…
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover Should we help the poor? Individual nations are like lifeboats. Each with a distinct carrying capacity. If the number of passengers exceed this capacity, everyone drowns. In the story “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Hardin, he believes the world would be better if we didn’t help the poor.…
Analysis of "The Seafarer" "The Seafarer", by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon scop, focuses on the themes of depression and passion. This elegy, which is a song of misery reveals the sorrow, pain, and loneliness the speaker feels while at sea. Though the speaker feels these emotions, he is passionate about what he is doing, and will continue his journey. Interpolations also occur through the end of the story which causes the speaker to change how he views his exile.…
One thing that Lily continues to struggle with is being motherless. Although the Boatwright sisters act as mother figures to her, she still does not have a real mother. To cope with her struggle, Lily goes to the places that her mother went to when she was at the house. For example, Lily goes to the honey house, the place that May said her mother stayed, and rests there. Physically being in the location that her mother once was soothes Lily.…
Does anyone know the meaning of Boat People? The Columbia Encyclopedia defined that, “Boat people, term used to describe the Indochinese refugees who fled Communist rule after the Vietnam War.” That was me thirty-three years ago. My younger brother and I escaped from Viet Nam together with fifty-four strangers on March 26, 1982, on a little boat that was only big enough for us to sit neatly face to face with our legs folded up to our chest. After four days and five nights, we arrived to Ku Ku camp in Indonesia Island, agitated, ravenous, and exhausted.…
The Atlantic Ocean allowed the discovery of continents possible and it is the main reason why we have diversity in the world. The food we eat, the language we learn to speak, the clothes we buy, and the education we obtain, come from all parts of the world. How and who allowed trade and communication among other continents happen? History back in 1492, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese set sail across the Atlantic ocean. The expedition resulted in the discovery of the New World and Africa.…
Keara Murphy is a comedian, writer, and play writer. Murphy’s writings mainly focus on Robert Burns, she considers herself a specialist on Burns’ Women. She incorporates humor into her writing which makes the writings more appealing to the reader. Murphy’s writing most focuses on the women that surrounded Robert Burns throughout his life. With mass articles that interpret Robert’s views on women Murphy helps introduce Robert as a limelight.…
In sixteenth century England, since women were considered naturally inferior to men, the prospect of being ruled by a woman created considerable anxiety. Elizabeth confronted the prevailing belief that females were naturally inferior to men by creating an image of herself as both “male” and “female”. To do this, she “manipulated contemporary images of monarchy and gender” (Williams, 1972). She dramatized the “male” attributes she shared with her father, such as bravery and intellectual skill, and she encouraged a sacred and magical “female” aura by alluring comparisons of herself with the Virgin Mary and Diana, goddess of chastity (Williams, 1972).…
Discovery can be a sudden or unexpected experience, that is faced with a positive or negative attitude and often involves an outcome that is either physical, emotional or both. Individuals can deliberately transform themselves as they may have been exposed to an impactful discovery. The poetry studied, written by Australian poet, Robert Gray, explores a concept of discovery through the character’s individual selves among the worlds in which they are surrounded by. The anthology of the poems, Journey the North Coast, The Meatworks and North Coast Town all provoke an idea of discovery through a form of transformation of a persona. Journey the North Coast illustrates the journey of a man who sets on-board a train along NSW’s North Coast to relive…